The Empire and the Five Kings - America's Abdication and the Fate of the World by Bernard-Henri Levy
$27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
One of the West's leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America's withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples o ...Show more
The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World by Susan Liautaud, Lisa Sweetingham
$37.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The essential guide for decision-making when ethics are on the edge. It's not your imagination. We're living in a time of moral decline. Publicly, government leaders are acting against the welfare of their citizens, companies are prioritising profits over our health and our safety, and technology poses ...Show more
To Be Fair - The Ultimate Guide to Fairness in the 21st Century by Ben. Fenton
$52.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
'Ben's book is an elegant and essential intervention in an era of enervating culture wars. It asks and answers nothing less than the most important question of our time: how can we recover the ability to talk to one another?' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland What does it mean to be fair? Why do ...Show more
The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hanh (Contribution by)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh presents seven transformative meditations that help us answer life's deepest ques ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?In Rationality, Pin ...Show more
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Mike Schur
$37.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plag ...Show more
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
$99.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy - the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us ...Show more
Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons from the Champions of Everyday Life by Michael Foley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet many writers, artists, film-makers and photographers have celebrated the ordinary life around them, and many phi ...Show more
How to Outwit Aristotle: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy by Peter Cave
$24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
How to know that you exist. How to be an object of desire. How to think like a bat. How to bring meaning to life. From the realm of the unconscious to the principles of logic, How to Outwit Aristotle will help you think like a philosopher. Witty and accessible, this is a superb introduction to the subje ...Show more
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World by Stephen Trombley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World" profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political and social theorists as well as spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. It offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as ...Show more